Brentwood, CA Rental Property Rules: Just Cause Eviction (2026)
Just cause eviction rules in Brentwood, CA, sometimes called tenant protection or "for cause" eviction ordinances, list the specific legal reasons a landlord can end a tenancy.
Key Facts
- Protected conduct
- Opposing or refusing a condo conversion
- Void lease terms
- Waivers of these rights are unenforceable
- Consequence
- Grounds to deny the conversion application
- Scope
- Applies only to condo conversions, Ch. 17.740
- Citation
- BMC § 17.740.070(F)
Summary
Brentwood bars landlords converting apartments to condominiums from evicting, threatening to evict, or harassing a tenant because that tenant refused to consent to the conversion or opposed it. Any lease clause that tries to waive this protection or force advance consent to a conversion is void, and violating it is grounds for the city to deny the conversion application.
F. Public policy—Lease Provisions and Evictions. 1. It is against the public policy embodied in this chapter to attempt to subvert its provisions by coercing the waiver of any rights or privileges created or protected herein. Any provision of a lease or rental agreement which purports to waive a tenant's rights under this chapter or which requires prior consent to the conversion shall be null, void and unenforceable. Such acts shall be grounds for denial of the tentative map application. 2. It is against the public policy embodied in this chapter to evict or threaten to evict or otherwise harass any tenant because of the tenant's refusal to consent to conversion, the tenant's opposition to such conversion or the anticipated refusal or opposition of the tenant. Such acts shall be grounds for denial of the tentative map application.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4604307; v5 updated 2025-12-09).
Full Breakdown
070(F) states the city's public policy on evictions tied to condominium conversions in two parts. Paragraph (F)(1) voids any lease or rental agreement provision that purports to waive a tenant's rights under the chapter or that requires a tenant's prior consent to the conversion, declaring such terms null, void and unenforceable, and makes including them grounds for the city to deny the tentative map application. Paragraph (F)(2) goes further, declaring it against public policy to evict, threaten to evict, or otherwise harass a tenant because the tenant refused to consent to the conversion, opposed the conversion, or is anticipated to refuse or oppose it, and again makes that conduct grounds for denial of the tentative map application.
740 and to tenants exercising their conversion-related rights, not to evictions generally. 070, including the 60-day notice of intention in subsection (A), the nontransferable right of first refusal to purchase in subsection (B), the minimum 180-day relocation window in subsection (E)(2), and the relocation assistance and comparable-rental information requirements in subsection (E)(3).
Violations & Fines
A subdivider who evicts, threatens, or harasses a tenant in violation of § 17.740.070(F), or who includes a void consent-waiver clause in a lease, gives the city grounds to deny the tentative map application outright under that same subsection; because Chapter 17.740 falls under Title 17, the general zoning infraction penalty in § 17.890.007, up to $250 for each day of a continuing violation, applies as well.
Frequently Asked Questions
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